Names+Faces: Showtime announces series returns

Look for three more seasons of “Homeland,” though the next won’t arrive until January. “Shameless” will take the CIA spy thriller’s customary fall spot. And “The Affair” will be back in November.

The network this week announced plans for a two-year, 20-episode adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel, “Purity,” to star Daniel Craig as a character modeled after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The series will be filmed next year and air later in 2017 and 2018.

“Homeland,” which films its sixth season in New York this fall after previous seasons in South Africa, Berlin and Charlotte, N.C., will postpone its return until January, though Showtime has greenlit two additional seasons and star Claire Danes is on board.

In the short term, “Ray Donovan” and new Cameron Crowe series “Roadies,” about a rock-band crew, arrive June 26.

Other premiere dates:

■ “Masters of Sex” returns for a fourth season Sept. 11.

■ “Shameless” moves to fall for its seventh season, starting Oct. 2.

■ “The Affair” is back for a third season Nov. 20.

The network also ordered a comedy pilot for “White Famous,” about a rising black comedian. Jamie Foxx will guest star.

Designer has hopes for kids

Fashion designer Stella McCartney says that she worries about her children being brought up surrounded by “crazy famous people.”

The designer, 44, made the admission in an interview for Porter magazine, but concluded that as she turned out “okay-ish” despite the people she mixed with while on tour with her Beatle father, she hopes her children will, too.

McCartney, who gave the interview to commemorate 15 years since she launched her fashion label, told the magazine: “I did have quite a different upbringing to a lot of my peers,” she said. “We all have a sort of code that we get, especially as Beatles kids. It’s an unspoken sort of word of understanding. But I’m comfortable around a lot of different types of people.”

Warner Bros. released the trailer Thursday for the upcoming “Ultimate Edition Cut.” The R-rated DVD is out on June 28 and the Blu-ray debuts July 17.

Malone’s character addresses Amy Adams’ Lois Lane in the trailer, saying, “That’s why you’re a great reporter. This stuff still shocks you.”

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■ Julie Andrews will star in and produce a Netflix preschool series focusing on the performing arts, the streaming service announced Thursday. “Julie’s Greenroom,” due in early 2017, will feature Andrews and a cast of new puppets from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.